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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Marian Wright Edelman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 6
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Bennettsville
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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